How One of the Reddest States Became the Nation’s Hottest Weed Market
Welcome to Toke-la-homa.
Welcome to Toke-la-homa.
Paul Demko Politico Nov 2020 Permalink
A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies.
Rivka Galchen New Yorker May 2018 20min Permalink
In an Oklahoma City neighborhood usually left off city maps, the federal government is implementing its $300 million anti-poverty plan: teaching poor Americans how to get married.
Katherine Boo New Yorker Aug 2003 50min Permalink
After oil was discovered on their Oklahoma reservation, the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world. Then they began to be murdered off mysteriously. In 1924 the nascent FBI sent a team of undercover agents, including a Native American, to the Osage reservation.
David Grann New Yorker Mar 2017 15min Permalink
The definitive biographical portrait of a whistleblower.
Denver Nicks This Land Sep 2010 20min Permalink
The Rattlesnake Derby is like a bass-fishing tournament, except you really don’t want a bite.
Jeff MacGregor Sports Illustrated Jul 1998 15min Permalink
Displaced from the Marshall Islands, residents build a new life in Oklahoma.
Krista Langlois Hakai Magazine Nov 2015 15min Permalink
“There is only one given: On the afternoon of August 16, a 22-year-old from Australia named Christopher Lane, who had come to America to go to college and play baseball, went out running and, without warning or knowing why, was shot to death in Duncan.”
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Jan 2014 30min Permalink
Ending a pregnancy in the most “pro-life” state in America.
Irin Carmon MSNBC Oct 2013 10min Permalink
On the job with America’s senior citizen letter carriers.
Tom Moroney Bloomberg Aug 2013 10min Permalink
“You know a storm is going to be bad, people in Oklahoma will tell you, when Gary England removes his jacket.” A profile of a meteorologist who has worked Tornado Alley for more than 40 years.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Aug 2013 20min Permalink